American String Teacher

Dr. Lynne Day Denig wrote to AST from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, where her husband is on post with the US Foreign Service. She studied violin and pedagogy with Donald Portnoy (WW Univ.), Raul Rolland (Univ. of Illinois) and earned a doctorate with Leopold LaFosse at the University of Iowa. Her Suzuki training was with Joellyn Keranen and Ronda Cole. She has taught at Northern Michigan University-Marquette, has been a Rolland Clinician, and over the last 14 years has taught students from age three to more than 70, at all levels of proficiency.

Lynne travels each month to Belgrade to teach her students there, and has given two recitals in the city. In the fall of 1983 she gave what was probably the country's first presentation of the Suzuki Method. She hopes to give more concerts of American music throughout Yugoslavia.

Dr. Sulkes is an associate professor of English at Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati. A frequenter of Paul Bartel's shop, ‘the Baroque Violin,’ he was encouraged to write of his own experiences as a student violinist.

Dr. Sulkes recently published an article on the background of individual Stradivarius violins in Cincinnati Horizons.

In the last issue, this column presented the first installment of a conversation with Charles Treger. It dealt initially and primarily with the topic of intonation, but branched out quite considerably. This is the second of two parts. [E.R.]

Editor's Note: This article forms the basis of a lecture-demonstration presented by Prof. Potter and some of his students at the Annual Midwestern Music Conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, January 19, 1985. [P.Y.]